Student Wellbeing
While completing studies online, choose to increase wellbeing, which is important for happier, healthier living. Research suggests 5 ways to actively improve wellbeing: connect, be active, keep learning, be aware, and help others. Consider these ideas and resources to thrive spiritually, socially, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Choosing spiritual wellbeing helps us live with purpose and meaning. With a cosmic perspective, we can experience a peace that passes understanding. Making a choice to integrate your faith, learning and living enhances our wellbeing. Trust that where God guides, he provides. Consider these options to help you grow spiritually.
Bible Study & Prayer Tools
- Bible Gateway
- Bibleinfo - Bible questions answered
- Easy English Bible | Bible - All Languages
- Choose a Bible study | More in NAD
- Ellen White writings for Bible study
- Why & how we pray
Web/Print Pages
- Be a student missionary | AFM: Be a missionary | Be a career missionary
- Faith and learning integration: wellness and many other topics!
- Adventist publications | College & University Dialogue | Journal of Adventist Education
- Adventist Learning Community - faith engagement & ministry resources
- Revival and Reformation - weekly devotional subscription
Podcasts/Vlogs
- Adventist peace podcasts with Jeff Boyd
- Adventist history podcasts with Matthew J. Lucio
- Adventist voices podcast with Alex Carpenter/Spectrum
- Adventist World Radio Ancient News podcasts on Daniel
- Ask NT Wright Anything podcasts - thought and theology
- Daily Living podcasts with It is Written Canada
- 5 Minutes in church history with Stephen Nichols
- I'm listening podcast with Justin Khoe
- The witness podcast network: pass the mic with J Tisby and T Burns
- Relevant podcast network: several podcasts
- The Bible for normal people podcast
- Truth's table Christian faith perspectives by & for black women
- Why did they do that podcasts with Dean Cullinane
Audio/Video Resources
- Join Andrews in Sabbath worship services online
- Adventist Review TV
- Adventist World Radio
- AudioVerse
- Breath of Life Ministries with Carlton P Byrd
- BibleProject | On YouTube
- Conflict of the Ages - Audio books, multiple formats
- Faith for Today
- Hope Channel TV
- Loma Linda Broadcasting Network
- Maranatha Mission Stories
- Storyline Church with Ty Gibson
- The Haystack TV
- Voice of Prophecy with Shawn Boonstra
- It is Written
Making a choice for social wellbeing is about connecting and including, even at a distance. Whether online or in our own homes, we can support, encourage and entertain one another. Choosing to provide for others is what communities do best. Whether you are in need or in a position to pay it forward, we all grow and flourish when we take care of one another.
Choosing physical wellbeing not only increases our strength and vitality but improves our mental and spiritual health as well. It also helps us to build our defenses against disease.
- Mental Health HelpGuide
- AU TeleHealth: virtual medical, mental, diet, and financial health support, free to enrolled students in US
- AU Counseling & Testing Center: Prevention & Wellness
- Mental Health Resources - Focus on the Family
- How to Overcome Cognitive Distortion
- Therapy in a Nutshell podcasts
- Verywell Mind - Know More, Live Brighter
Choosing emotional wellbeing allows us to be patient with ourselves and empathetic with others, particularly during stressful times. Calming and caring for our selves makes us more resilient. Caring for others and experiencing God together increases emotional satisfaction with life.
- Emotional wellness toolkit: 6 ways to improve emotional health
- CDC Promoting Social and Emotional Health
- How to make stress your friend - McGonigal
- Mind/Body Connection: How your emotions affect your health
- Keeping your emotional health
- Relax and breath (video)
- Helping children cope with emergencies